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CFP or Final Four? $20.5M to Spend & One Coach Gone… Welcome to Episode 200 ‼️ (S4//E49) · Cocaine Willie

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You actually have to be on cocaine to be on this part
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there. What's up everybody?
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You're listening to yet another edition of Cocaine Willy, the
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official, a state representative on the college huddle.
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I'm your commissioner, Bob Trollsby.
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And as always, I'm joined by my Co host, the good chef Andre
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Napier. And the international man of
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mystery is gone yet again. And he went back to revisit the
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gravesite of the 2025 K State football season at Aviva Stadium
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in Dublin, Ireland. Would you?
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Would you go back had you gone, chef?
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Had you gone to the game? Do you think you'll ever go back
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to Yeah? I mean, I would.
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Everything I've heard is that that stadium and that I mean the
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venue, the place, the, the location, Ireland was awesome.
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I would go back. I don't know what kind of of
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sporting events they put on there.
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Obviously a rugby stadium, but like, I mean, do they do
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international matches there? I mean, I would go back for that
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like a international rugby match, like if.
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Gaylord Football. Yeah, New New Zealand was there.
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You know, maybe if you know, if it's a soccer match, hell, I
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could watch some Ireland soccer. But yeah, I would go back.
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I would love, I would love to visit.
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I would just let us say that I would love to be there.
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I think it is someone who went to the game.
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I think I would go back to Aviva Stadium for Gaelic football or
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rugby, rugby sevens perhaps. I don't think I would want to go
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see K State football play there again, unless that's.
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Fair. We're just really good, but it
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feels like feels like that place is cursed for us.
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Are they doing more football at this specific stadium this year
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or I don't know what the schedule is for Ireland this
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year I feel like. It yeah, another big TCU.
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It's TCU in North Carolina, right?
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Right. No balance.
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To do now I remember, but there's another KU's plan in
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Germany or England. London.
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Is it Wembley? Are they playing Wembley?
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So. I there's no way that they can't
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let, they can't let KU and Wembley.
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They can't let that happen. I don't want that to happen.
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That's a big feather in the captain play at Wembley.
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It is at Wembley Stadium. Wow.
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The Union Jack. Good on you, KU.
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Good on you, good on you. KUI will give you credit for
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that one, but that's as far as I go.
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That would be now that would be sick.
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That would be pretty sweet. I'm with you on that.
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So this is our 200th episode of Cocaine Willie kind of burying
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the lead there. Shout out to us.
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We we survived for this long. I was crunching some numbers
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here. So when you look at podcasts
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that have made it to to 200 episodes, what that means is we
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are well under 5% of all podcasts that have reached this
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milestone. Out of the millions of podcasts
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that are out there, only about 400 or 500,000 podcasts out
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there in the ether are active, meaning they've published an
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episode in the last 30 to 90 days.
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And the the the average podcast publishes fewer than 20
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episodes. So we've 10 xed the average
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podcasts that are out there. So congratulations to us and
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give myself a pat on the back here real quick.
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We are we are in a small fraction of shows and if we get
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to 300 plus episodes like Scott has, shout out to Scott.
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We all love our friends Scott. We told him we'd.
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Give him OK. He's in he's in rarefied air.
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That would mean he's he's at the like less than 1% mark, I think,
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based on how many he's published.
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So pretty cool stuff there. Also, we'd be remiss not to to
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give a, a kudos and a shout out to our other Co host, Fireball
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Matt, who is who's travelling the world right now.
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So as he as he's want to do so he deserves some be able to do
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it without you guys. He deserves some.
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I wouldn't say, oh, overwhelming, you know, even
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overwhelming minority. Really, my boy Matt, you know,
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third wheel, if we, if we're being honest, this is the
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A-Team. I'm just kidding.
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I'm literally just kidding. Matt.
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Integral part to the program. Can't wait for him to be back.
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But 200 episodes, that is literally, you know where we
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from where we started to where we're at now.
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This is a total night and day. I think we we invested into the
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podcasting world. We took it serious, not too
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serious, but I think we just, we deserve, you know, we deserve
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our flowers at some point for just the longevity.
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I mean, it takes a lot to do things like we're what we're
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doing. I mean, dog days, bad times.
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I mean, not a lot of people would, you know, put up with
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what we're doing. And I think we deserve our
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flowers. You know, it's, it is a lot of
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work to do this thing. It is a hobby and, and at the
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same time, I, I enjoy doing it, but it does take work.
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It takes preparation time on my part to put together the
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outlines. It takes time to get things
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published and social media posts and things edited.
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So yeah, it is. It's a labor of love.
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It's fun. And I don't, I don't spend too
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much time on it, but I spend enough to where it does kind of
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eat into at least a few hours every every Tuesday, every week.
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So we do it for the fans. We enjoy interacting with you
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guys. We enjoy you guys commenting and
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and replying and getting involved on Twitter, YouTube,
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Spotify, wherever you're, you're listening to this or watching
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you like it, subscribe to our YouTube channel.
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Give us a like on the videos that that does help.
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Matt's been doing work on on his end to, to get some, some old
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basketball games published on our page as well.
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So I go to the cocaine will YouTube site.
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You'll see some of those old games.
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You'll see all of our episodes at least from Season 2 on when
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we started doing the video version.
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And yeah, it's it's been a lot of fun.
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So for our 200th episode, because there's not a whole lot
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to talk about, we're not going to belabor it with our terrible
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men's basketball team. We can talk a little bit about
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the women's team, but again, they're kind of on a trajectory
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for the WBIT at this point if we're being if we're being
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optimistic. And they've been a lot more fun
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to watch to to be to be perfectly clear about that.
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But it's not like I'm going to go in dissect Nick Toth's press
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availability from yesterday. So for today, for this episode,
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what we're going to do for a 200th episode special not
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featuring Matt, we're going to be AD for the day.
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So I've got a list of questions or scenarios to go through.
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And I, I want to have this become kind of a discussion
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point. And for those of you who are
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listening or watching to this add, add your commentary too.
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So we want to see you in the YouTube comments and the tweets
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in the replies talking about what your moves would be if you
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were AD at K state for a day. So and maybe it's not
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necessarily for a day, we're not time keeping this necessarily or
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gatekeeping how much time you're the AD.
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This is just if you're in the shoes of Jean Taylor, how are
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you approaching these scenarios is how I want to think about
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this. So my first question is, what is
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your first move if you're the AD at K state?
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This is open-ended. It could be anything.
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I think I have to make the perfect basketball higher.
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Obviously that is my number one job is making sure the people
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that are below me really know what they're doing, are all
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invested into Kansas State 100% and are trying to make the
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university and the athletic department a a notch above
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everybody else. I think a place like Kansas
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State, especially on the football end, if I'm taking over
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for Gene, I think he did a phenomenal job on the football
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end. But I think he really has to
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nail this basketball hire. And I think that I'm the right
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guy for the job and I can do it. But that is, that is my #1
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objective is having the the right staff.
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And they're, they're not only are they coaches and I give a
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lot of Flack for, you know, Tang and wanting to make better men
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out of his players and stuff. And you know, that is a, a
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crucial part. But they are brand ambassadors
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for the university. They are the figureheads of what
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your athletic department is. So that that is the number one
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objective. I mean, we can, we can get
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silly, like there's silly things that we could add, but I think
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realistically that is the number one thing that I'm doing as the
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AD. And I'm going to, I think that's
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fair. I think that's fair.
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Let's let's assume the basketball higher has been made
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and it is the perfect tire. Then what is your next move as
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ADI? Think, I think, I mean what's
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the oldest? I mean, what's when's the last
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time Bramlage got an upgrade? I mean, and obviously court has
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been done. Court has been done.
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Right. I think they did some box like
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some some of the loge boxes within the last 10 to 15 does.
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That does that. The connection between Bramlage
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and Bill Snyder Family Stadium, that that like Shamrock, Yeah,
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the Shamrock is that all connected within.
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It is. Oh man, that is.
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That's a sweet deal right there. I don't know.
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Also, I think you have a stadium question in this.
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I'm not sure. Yeah.
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So that would be like which stadium facility upgrade would
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you target? Target 1st, so.
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Also, you know, I don't know where the revenue of, you know,
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Rev sharing and where the revenue is going to come from
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into the future. And I don't know how a lot of
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schools are going to handle that.
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But if you're going to be I mean, obviously Utah took a lot
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of Flack for what they did. I don't know if I would go that
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far, but the. Private.
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Equity, yeah, the private equity part, but I don't think does the
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AD handle that. I don't know if that's a
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university president thing, but you know, somewhere to generate
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revenue for your athletic department, whether it's, you
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know, sponsors. I would I would be the first one
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with patches, to be honest. I think the the NCAA just
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granted that I'm doing that. I'm 100% in doing that.
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And you know, if you're really, really about it, depending on
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the the sponsor that you have, I'm making everything
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customizable. So let's say it is AI don't even
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know what, what brand would I want?
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Do you have UD FS in Kansas? I've never heard of that, but I
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haven't lived in Kansas. United United Dairy Farmers, do
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you buy the dairy farmers? I'm sure there's something.
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Yeah, I'm sure there's something involving I.
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Don't know something along those like even a bigger brand let's
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say. National Beef Council and have
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it say beef on it. Why would you add I mean?
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National Beef Council would be funny, but let's say, let's for
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instance, let's say Staples. Let's just, let's just just
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throw out Staples. I would have their obviously
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their. Their logo is known for its
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bright redness. I would make it purple.
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Yeah, that's, that's a good point though.
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You need to, you need to take that into consideration if
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you're doing the jersey patches. I know when you look at like the
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NBA or the NHL that have the jersey patches in the MLB has
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had them and Kansas. City is pretty silly.
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Quick trip one and it's red. You got to take that into
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consideration. I know like Colorado Avalanche,
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they got, I think IMA some kind of investment firm as a as a
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jersey sponsor, but they made it a white logo.
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So blends in with the jersey. So it's not this weird thing.
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I know like the LA Kings, they went with something that's just
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white. So it's white on the black.
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So blends in with the jersey pretty well.
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But Ibotta being the jersey sponsor for the Pelicans with a
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pink logo? Kind of a weird move there,
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right? Right.
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I don't know. I mean, I think it's I think
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it's something something along those lines would be my first
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move as AD, you know, just something to if I'm not, you
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know, doing the obvious stuff. But I think I think something
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cutting like that would be really cool.
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I think the the first ones to do that, there might be I've
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already somebody that's done it, but I'm I think I think this is
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a new rule. Yeah, and and LSU was the first
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one I think in the power for, to, to go for it.
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I forget who their sponsor is, but it's some, some Louisiana
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thing. But yes, I'm I'm doing that.
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But I'm taking it a step further.
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I'm I'm maximizing the potential revenue with court field
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sponsors for every sport. We're doing women's tennis.
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We're doing, I don't even know if you would be legally able to
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do this, but can you? Do you know how in baseball with
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the baseball diamond, you've got like the sponsor on the back of
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the ground? Can you do a bunker sponsor at
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Culvert Hills and have it have it be like your logo's in the
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sand? In the sand, it's about the
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purpose. I mean, like, I mean, you're
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going to have to get it unless there's some really good golf
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being played, you're going to have to get that.
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You're going to have to get that Well, well, I'm saying like if
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they're out there hitting your bunkers all the time you're at
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your sponsorship logo is not going to be there much longer.
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It's going to. Be mostly, mostly joking on that
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one. But seriously, Bill, Bill Snyder
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Family Stadium needs a field sponsor The tennis courts.
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If you can do something on the tennis courts, if you can do
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something with the track and field facility, if you can do
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something with Bramlage, sell the naming rights to Bramlage.
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I know you you may not be able to necessarily do something with
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Bill Snyder Family Stadium, but you could take the approach that
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like the Chiefs have with GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
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I know it used to be or maybe still is.
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I'm not sure if the Wagner Field name is still a thing at Bill
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Snyder Family Stadium, but you could, do you know the Shamrock
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trading Wagner Field at Bill Snyder Family Stadium?
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It gets a little convoluted, but you have to be able to drive
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this revenue and I don't understand why we've, you know,
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two years ago Jean Taylor was talking about selling the naming
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rights to Bramlage and getting the blessing from the Bramlage
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family to do so. Why we not done it yet?
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Why do we not have a court sponsor yet?
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Every, not every other team in the Big 12 certainly, but you
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know, Iowa State has Mid America Energy or whatever.
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They are a sponsor on the, on the field at, at, you know, Jack
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Trice Stadium. You've got other teams doing
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this already. Why?
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Why have we not done it yet? We can't talk about, you know,
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18 and a half million dollar buyouts for ex basketball
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coaches and not be trying to pursue whatever we can to try to
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maximize the revenue streams that are available to us.
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So if I'm AD even just for one day, I am working on securing as
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many of those sponsorships as humanly possible, knowing that
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some of those conversations have probably taken place.
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New Jersey patches. I'm doing all of that stuff.
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I agree with a lot of fans in that it's not the most visually
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appealing thing, but that's the way you have to go in this
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current landscape of college, college athletics.
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So that's where that's where I would go with my first move.
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Specifically. The next question I have is
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where, what, where would you invest more dollars into?
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This could be a specific sport. This could be a specific
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facility, you know, we're going to get more into specific
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facilities and things. This could be, you know,
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increasing the the salary pool for specific sport, whether it's
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football, basketball, whatever. Like what areas would you invest
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more of your own existing dollars into if you're the AD?
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That's tough. I mean, obviously the the money
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generator and the biggest brand is football.
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You're a little hand I it's just crazy the landscape of sports
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where we're at in terms of like the the public opinion of where
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the Big 12 is in terms of pecking order.
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You can invest as much as you want.
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Obviously Texas Tech did that. You know, they are investing the
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NIL dollars. And I think until the, you know,
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until the rules are settled, I think it has to be NIL.
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Now that I think about it, NIL is obviously the king and that's
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where you're investing all of your money.
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I think you have to if you want to be top echelon.
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But Texas Tech is doing that and they're still considered a
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lesser program. So maybe at this point you you
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keep you stay competitive, but you don't you know, I don't even
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know what the term would be sell the farm on like completely
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going in on this and you know, still be can in the public
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opinion considered a lesser than.
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So it it kind of is all for not. I mean, unless your, your plan
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is, you know, you want to be the number one team in the Big 12
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and you know it for however much we want to say it, the SEC and
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the Big 10 are going to dominate this sport.
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It's just, it kind of is what it is at this point until something
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changes along the lines of, you know, maybe pulling all revenue
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together from these TV contracts because they, these schools are
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just making so much more money than the average Big 12 team or
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the even the top Big 12 teams that you're, you're, you're at a
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lesser advantage. And, but I would invest in NIL.
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I mean, if you want to win now and in this landscape, you have
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to, you have to be 100% in that. And so NIL for both sports and
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all sports really, that's what's driving the better teams.
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And that that's just the facts of it.
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I think it's, I agree with you, I agree with you.
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I think if I'm trying to think maybe a little bit outside of
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the box here, I would I would invest in.
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And again, I'm not an ADII know a couple of guys who have been a
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DS over the years, but I haven't had like in depth conversations
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with them around like what an investment looks like when you
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talk about, let's say you want to do a home and home series
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with Nebraska or Oklahoma, like get some of those regional
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rivals back into the fold that they used to be old Big eight
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teams. You know, I don't I don't care
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as much about Missouri. We also did play a game with
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them recently. So that's not super top of mind.
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But if you could invest in some of these regional opponents,
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like in Oklahoma, like in Nebraska, like in Iowa even, or
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Minnesota, like exposing the fan base to other regions, other
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areas like you did with Dublin, you show the K State fans are
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going to travel no matter where, where the game is going to be.
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If it's on a different continent or if it's, if it's stateside,
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fans are still going to go to those games.
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I, I, I think it would, it, would it do a lot to provide
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some more exposure to K State as a brand to be able to have some
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marquee matchups with, with some of those Big 10 teams, if
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they're amenable to it with some of those SEC teams, like, you
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know, we have the Auburn one, we had the Miami one.
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I think those those two were successful, but you know, I want
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to have more of those mid tier big 10 teams.
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If I'm being honest, I would like to have Iowa or Wisconsin
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on the schedule because we've never made a trip there.
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I would like to have a Michigan State on the schedule.
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I feel like those would be really fun types of of games to
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invest in, but but obviously Nebraska, Oklahoma, those, those
23:59
would be some really fun games to get back on the schedule in
24:02
some sort of capacity. And I think from a, from a
24:05
dollar standpoint, again, if we're trying to lean into
24:08
maximizing revenue potential, you know, you're going to get
24:13
fans, it's going to be shitty, but you're going to get fans
24:16
from both of those fan bases that are going to, to fill up a
24:19
significant portion of your stadium, whether they whether
24:21
you want them to or not. You know, that's, that's going
24:24
to maximize some of the dollars that you have at your disposal.
24:26
If that's on the the resale market or, or even your own fans
24:29
pockets are going to be able to take advantage of some of that.
24:32
But I would invest in some of those more, those more regional
24:35
types of opponents. And then the second piece is
24:39
with these early season basketball tournaments, I want
24:42
to, again, I don't know what you have to invest in order to be a
24:46
part of that. I know the players here is going
24:48
to be a good next step for us to be able to participate in that.
24:51
But we've never played in the Maui Invitational, at least as
24:54
far as I can remember. You know, Battle for Atlanta,
24:57
some of those other tournaments, they, they get more eyeballs and
25:00
have more marquee brands participating in it.
25:03
I don't think there's any reason why K State can't participate in
25:06
those types of tournaments instead of having to play in a
25:08
high school gym in the Bahamas. Like, who cares about that?
25:11
Who cares about Baja Mar? Like, I, I don't care.
25:16
I don't care about whatever those are the those are the two
25:21
areas that I would maybe invest more, even if it's not a dollar
25:25
investment, invest more time, invest more time in building
25:28
those relationships with those other ADS in order to secure
25:32
some of those types of opponents, both for football and
25:35
for basketball. And I feel like they've done a
25:38
good job with it on the women's side with some of the things
25:40
that they've done in the early, early season tournaments.
25:42
The baseball team has done a good job of getting exposure in
25:45
some of their early, early season.
25:47
Kind of kind of, you know, the Arlington game that they just
25:50
played for, for baseball, the Arizona games that they just
25:53
played for baseball. I feel like some of the other
25:55
sports have done a good job of it.
25:57
You know, it's kind of two different things.
25:59
But but that's that's a couple areas where I would invest some
26:01
more time into. How far out are we in foot
26:06
football schedules? I think are we up to 20-30
26:09
something? 2032 maybe?
26:11
Yeah, but even when it's, it's not totally decided because some
26:16
of the I, I don't know like let me let me take a quick peek.
26:21
I feel like we have a Washington state.
26:24
Obviously we get Washington state, but we have like we go
26:26
out to Pullman. I feel like we have like.
26:31
NC State, Oregon State. Oregon State.
26:35
So when you're thinking, when you're thinking Power 4, NC
26:38
State's really the only actual Power 14 that we have scheduled
26:43
and that's scheduled out to 2032.
26:46
So honestly, when we when we went back, you know, even six
26:50
years ago, we had a lot of these games already scheduled through.
26:54
I think 2026 is what I had looked at or 2025 maybe is what
26:58
I had looked at when, when Kleiman had took over, like the
27:01
Army game was already on the schedule.
27:03
I think for for quite some time Mississippi State had been on
27:06
the schedule. Like when I was a student, they
27:08
scheduled that home and home. Thanks Kirk Schultz for that.
27:11
I guess. Thanks Kirk Schultz for
27:13
Washington State as well. But you know, we have the
27:17
opportunity in 282920302031 and 2032.
27:22
I mean, 28 for sure, because we only have Texas State on the
27:26
schedule. I don't consider Wazoo or Oregon
27:29
State Power 4 anymore. So I in theory you could add a
27:33
Power 4 opponent to that. I think whether you want to or
27:36
not, because it's a loophole, but I think it would be fun for
27:40
the fans to be able to add something in each of those
27:42
years. And then, yeah, NC State is
27:44
really the only home and home we have with a true Power 4
27:47
opponent that's been scheduled out.
27:49
Yeah, I would. I mean, obviously what you were,
27:52
what you were going over is absolutely the perfect scenario.
27:55
I think that builds up, you know, the hype for the season
27:59
when you get a non con game that's really competitive, that
28:01
could be potentially competitive in their players and fans are
28:07
going to be invested in because you know, whether they're
28:12
whether the players are coming from that area or, you know, the
28:16
fans have something to, you know, a vested interest in it
28:20
outside of just rooting for their own team.
28:23
Yeah, you got a schedule. Well, and it makes me think of
28:26
like the basketball, how Marco was the kind of the guy that was
28:31
reaching out the teams just like the year prior, like a you want
28:34
to jump on this schedule real quick.
28:36
We need a couple more like I hope we're doing a little bit
28:40
more than that obviously. And I hope it's not that simple,
28:44
but you never know. I mean, maybe it is just so you
28:48
reach out and be like, hey, Michigan State, I know you're
28:50
got a, you got a vacancy in 2028.
28:54
I know it's short notice, but hey, you wanted 2 years from
28:56
now, you want to start a home in home in 2028 and 2030.
29:01
I mean, why not? That would be that, that would
29:03
be cool. I mean, obviously Michigan State
29:04
is not the top one that you're looking for, but on Nebraska,
29:09
like you said, even, I mean, no. OK, now that now this isn't
29:17
power forward, but let me let me just throw this out there.
29:20
Would it be fun to try to resurrect some demons with North
29:23
Dakota State coming back to the FCSFCS level?
29:29
That's right. That's right.
29:30
They've been elevated, they've been held.
29:32
They're going to be a Mountain West team.
29:34
You know, you, you bring that up when you when you think about,
29:38
yeah, they're, they're going to be in a little bit of an
29:40
adjustment period. So it's going to be interesting
29:42
to see how they make that transition.
29:44
I don't know if I would go out so far as to schedule them
29:47
necessarily. I think we need to do another UT
29:50
Martin. The Skyhawks on the schedule
29:53
again, Yeah. Give me.
29:57
But it is an option now. It is an option now for.
30:00
Sure, I think that would be super fun.
30:02
I think that would be that one would stir up some shit that
30:07
wouldn't stir up some shit and I, I would be here for it.
30:11
But yeah, the scheduling is, it's something that you know,
30:14
they they can handle and I think they should.
30:17
Yeah, moving, I guess real quick.
30:20
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beef for your money. Chef, my question for you this
32:12
week, OK, what is what is a beef dish that you have never had or
32:17
never made but would like to have or make on your own?
32:20
Never. OK, so never had and never had
32:24
and never made or two two separate categories because I.
32:28
Answer both. OK, never had.
32:32
You know it's the same answer. For me, I've made a beef
32:36
Wellington. That was going to be my.
32:39
Answer. I've never sat down and ate it
32:41
though. OK, You know, I'm sure it's
32:45
fantastic. I think it's a little posh.
32:48
I think it's a little overrated in my opinion.
32:52
The beef is probably the most integral part of it.
32:55
The puff pastry kind of just does what it does.
32:58
The mushroom dextail is, you know, you know it is.
33:02
It's an interesting part to it. And then prosciutto, I mean,
33:08
that's you're really just layering on things that just, it
33:13
just screams decadent and it's kind of overrated in my opinion.
33:17
I would try it though. I would definitely want to, but
33:22
I've made I've made plenty in my time as a chef.
33:26
What I would want to make. You know, I think if I could
33:36
choose like the finest No see, like I wonder when you're making
33:42
Pho because I would I would use a bunch of different parts of
33:47
the cow or the beef to to to make this whole, you know,
33:54
process with a nice beef stock, a nice all that stuff and using
33:58
different cuts. But I wonder what the best cut
34:01
for the shaved thin beef would be in there.
34:06
I don't. I would imagine maybe like a rib
34:08
eye, but I don't know if you'd want it too fatty.
34:10
I'm not sure what they even use in that to be honest.
34:12
I've seen like flank steak or flap steak used for that as
34:16
well, but it's shaved. It's shaved super, super thin.
34:19
And yeah, rib eye, I've seen, I've seen rib eyes.
34:22
I would love, I would love, I would love to do that.
34:26
I've never made that before. I've only had it, so yeah, give
34:31
me a beef too. Why not?
34:34
I would love to know what people's comments, if there's
34:36
any. That's Vietnamese, isn't it?
34:39
That's Vietnamese. I would love if any viets are in
34:43
the comments tell me what what kind of beef they're using.
34:48
Had a lot of Vietnamese friends growing up in Wichita.
34:51
There are a lot of Vietnamese in in Wichita.
34:53
It's fantastic. The pho is great.
34:56
Going over to friends houses and having homemade spring rolls
34:58
like with the rice papers. Just yeah, Vietnamese food is
35:01
one of my favourites. Bonnies.
35:03
Yeah, I could, I could eat this stuff all day.
35:06
Yeah, I have made pho. I have made pho.
35:10
I haven't made it with beef though, so that's that's going
35:12
to be my next that's going to be my next, next thing.
35:15
I don't know if I can slice the beef that thin though.
35:17
So if you've got. Any.
35:19
Slicers, yeah, I don't have a slicer.
35:21
I've chef Jet Tila has recommended throwing the meat
35:26
once it's thawed, throw it in the freezer for like 40 minutes
35:30
and then that'll firm it up enough to where you can you can.
35:33
Change slice it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:36
I've, I've seen the problem is I think for pho you want like
35:40
real, like big, like big strips, real super thin, big wide
35:46
strips. Cause I've seen people that need
35:49
shaved steak. They just get like a frozen
35:51
piece of meat and then just actual like a, like a, you know,
35:57
not a grader, but what's the word?
35:59
I'm looking like a peeler, like a random peeler that you would
36:01
peel an apple with and just peel the outside of the meat and just
36:04
get real thin strips. They're not very wide, but you
36:09
know, yeah, it's. Got to be a sharp peeler too.
36:14
All right, that's, that's plenty of of food talk for the night.
36:17
But I, I do enjoy the food talk. Which stadium and facilities
36:22
upgrade would you target 1st? I mean, feel like that I, I
36:31
don't know, I feel like I kind of answered this.
36:33
I mean, I, if I'm being just silly, I obviously the football
36:38
stadium now one thing that like irks me and it's not like a big
36:42
deal and it's not even really an irk.
36:45
It's just, I find it interesting that we do our walkthrough
36:48
through the parking lot and there's like really nothing
36:53
there. It's, you know, just random
36:55
guardrails. And I mean the, the parking lot,
36:58
it's just a parking lot and they drop them the kids off and then
37:01
they walk into the front of the stadium and they, they with the
37:06
fans and all that stuff. I like how West Virginia does
37:09
it. They go through the the parking
37:12
lot, but it, it leads into like stairs where everybody's
37:17
surrounded it. It's not necessarily just in the
37:19
middle of the parking lot. So maybe if like a lead into the
37:25
lead into the stadium is if that's a possibility.
37:29
I don't know if that's a thing. I don't know.
37:32
I don't know. I like I think that's what I
37:34
would do. I would try to be necessarily
37:37
just make is it a concourse? Is that what what that would be
37:42
called? Let's let's combine these ideas.
37:45
So my biggest issue with Bill Snyder Family Stadium and it's
37:49
strictly an aesthetic thing is that you've got veneer and the
37:54
West side that have this castle like architecture and then
37:59
you've got the side that was finished in 1998.
38:03
It's just, they, they've made a couple of improvements through
38:06
the years to make it look a little nicer, but it's just,
38:09
it's just stands like I would like to close it off and go with
38:14
a similar architectural design or or theme.
38:18
Your time on the. East side was yes, you could
38:20
have those, you know, castle looking Nichols Hall looking
38:23
Spires on the east side. close it off and then you have like a
38:29
nice architectural landscape architect.
38:32
Students from K State can design it.
38:34
It can be part of a capstone project for them #1 landscape
38:37
architecture school in the nation.
38:38
By the way, you could build these limestone like you could
38:43
build these planters like a little walkway through purple,
38:47
purple flowers in these little flower planters have it be on
38:51
both sides and have to stick that the players can walk in
38:54
through there just kind of to the to the north of the new
38:57
training, like the practice facility as they walk, you know,
39:00
as they walk. Because the indoors, right, the
39:02
indoor is connected over there to the the east side, right?
39:06
No, it's a stand alone building, but it's adjacent to it.
39:12
OK, I'm trying to. I'm trying to figure out where
39:15
because I haven't been. I don't think I've been to the
39:17
stadium since the indoors been up.
39:21
But I guess maybe that would be too much because they built the
39:23
indoors, they built the indoor facility and that has that kind
39:26
of limestone look to it. Yeah, I don't know.
39:29
I don't know, Maybe I'm rethinking this a little bit.
39:32
No, I like, I like the walkway idea because maybe man, I would
39:39
love to have, you know, just like let's get some AI
39:42
renderings going. I would love a good.
39:45
AI Rendering. But I think they need to do
39:47
something with how the players walk in because that is such a
39:50
big social media push that they put out there.
39:52
And I love seeing the, you know, the young fans, families that
39:57
are seeing their, you know, sons get ready for a football game
40:00
and they're out there front row and, you know, they get a a hug
40:04
and a high five. I just think it's a little not
40:06
tacky. Tacky is a bad word to say for.
40:09
That, but it's just they're out in the middle of the parking
40:11
lot. And I think more can be done to,
40:15
you know, judge it up, if you will.
40:20
Yeah, meanwhile, I'll, I'll, you know, use my company's money to
40:24
create a, a ChatGPT rendering of what this could look like.
40:27
So yeah, we'll, we'll do that. All right, moving on.
40:32
So I think I'm going to skip the next two here.
40:37
I want to move on to Rev share, Rev share distribution and and
40:41
dollars. So we've got a number of
40:44
different sports that we that we sponsor, that we participate in,
40:48
notably football, men's and women's basketball, volleyball,
40:51
men's and women's golf, men's and women's track and cross
40:54
country, women's rowing, women's tennis and women's soccer.
40:59
When you look at the distribution for each of those
41:02
sports, football's about 30% on average for most Power 4
41:06
institutions, which is about 6:00-ish million dollars.
41:09
Men's basketball is about 21 percent on average.
41:12
Across Power 4, it's $4.3 million.
41:15
Women's basketball 1.7 million, 8% volleyball 5.6%, that's 1.1
41:23
million. Track and field, surprisingly
41:26
11.2%, but I think it's due to the size of the team and the
41:30
amount of scholarships that that are involved with that.
41:32
It's 2.2, almost $2.3 million. Women's rowing 1.4 million,
41:40
women's soccer 2 million, women's tennis 861,000, and then
41:47
men's and women's golf are 287,000 each.
41:50
I guess in the grand scheme of things, I feel like golf, all
41:54
the facilities are already exist.
41:56
You're really just travelling and sponsoring travel and then
42:00
you've got the athletes. On the team and.
42:01
Equipment. So kind of funny to think that
42:05
golf might be the smallest. I'm absolutely, I know.
42:09
If you're asking me which one am I promoting up and which one am
42:12
I giving more to, no offense to women rowing.
42:17
I mean absolutely zero offense, and I mean, this was all due
42:21
respect. Golf at you cannot, I mean you
42:25
cannot quadruple up golf with women's rowing and you just
42:31
can't, cannot do that. And I, I hate that because I,
42:36
you know, honestly, rowing is one of my favorite exercises.
42:41
But. Yeah, I love a good row.
42:43
I love a good row. Sitting on that machine.
42:46
I think it's hilarious trying to like get into the motion.
42:49
I think it's funny, but rowing, I've never seen a Kansas State
42:54
competitive rowing match at all. And we've had women's golfers on
43:01
our, you know, program that have done things at the Masters.
43:07
You know, you just cannot let that happen.
43:10
And I, I, I would invest into golf way more.
43:14
I mean, collegiate golf is on TV, you know, I mean, yeah, I
43:20
can't say that I've seen women's rowing anywhere outside of the
43:25
Internet. And I think you could find
43:27
anything on the Internet. So yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm investing
43:32
in golf, way more women and women's and men's golf.
43:36
It has to be a priority in my book.
43:39
Maybe because I am a golfer and I'm biased, but you know, yeah,
43:42
I'm gonna let my bias show. Well, The thing is, again, not
43:46
to not to poo poo the women's rowing team by any means, but
43:50
you, when you look at men's women's golf, like people know
43:53
who Carla Bernard is, people know that you know, Ricky Fowler
43:59
and, and Victor Hoffland went to Oklahoma State.
44:01
Like there's an association there when people graduate and
44:04
then make it to the tour, whether it's the LPGA or the PGA
44:07
or liver, whatever. So I feel like that's an
44:11
opportunity for branding. It's an opportunity for you to
44:13
get your name out there as an institution and and draw more
44:16
interest. Again, you're not necessarily
44:19
getting as many eyeballs on men's and women's collegiate
44:22
golf as you are on the Masters or the PGA, but it is it at
44:27
least an association that you can have with with your
44:30
institution. When you look at a player that's
44:33
on the tour, maybe it is worth investing a little bit more in,
44:38
in scouring some of the talent that's going through some of the
44:40
amateur circuits and things like that.
44:42
So I'm with you on that. I'm with you on that.
44:45
Also. I do have to share.
44:46
This is the really shitty rendering that that Chad GBT
44:51
came up with. So I'm going to share this here.
44:56
A shout out to Robert Strep. You know, I think he's not, he's
45:01
nowhere. He hasn't been nowhere near as
45:03
successful as, like we said, Victor Hovlin or a Ricky Fowler.
45:09
But that is a Kansas State alum that is on the PGA Tour that has
45:14
been doing, you know, he's been making and not recently, but you
45:19
know, he is a Kansas State alum that has been on the tour for a
45:24
while. And you know, we got to give him
45:26
more love. We got to make it more prominent
45:29
and make it more acceptable and more prestigious to be a Kansas
45:35
State alum golfer. Yeah, yeah.
45:38
But these renderings are sweet. It's it's horrible.
45:42
This is horrible. No, look, look at this.
45:44
So on the. What's going on with that bottom
45:46
picture on? The on the top image, the top
45:49
image they are showing stands on the opposite side of where the
45:53
field is. This shows you how bad AI is.
45:59
The second image. Basically what I asked for was I
46:02
want to retain the existing stands, not eliminate the cause
46:07
of. This effectively eliminates the
46:08
upper deck and then replaces it with something that would more
46:11
or less mirror the West side. It's not at all what I'm looking
46:14
for here. I also don't think we need
46:18
stands looking out of the parking lot personally, but you
46:21
know, this is this is a is not very smart as.
46:25
A As a avid people watcher, I would like that.
46:31
Yeah, you can see everybody because we haven't gotten rid of
46:34
exit re entry yet. So you can see everybody, you
46:37
know, post gaming the first half in the parking lot out there.
46:43
I when I was going through this, I was also very surprised at the
46:48
allocation for I was surprised at the allocation for women's
46:53
soccer being more than volleyball.
46:56
When you talk about non revenue. And again, this is not K states
47:00
allocation. This is just what on average
47:03
different allocations are across power for based on a handful of
47:07
different sources. Not cat GPT the allocation.
47:12
The allocation for women's soccer being higher than women's
47:15
volleyball doesn't really make sense to me.
47:16
Volleyball gets a ton of viewers.
47:18
I couldn't tell you where to find women's soccer matches to
47:21
save your life. Plus when you're looking at
47:24
popularity of sports, soccer has become a more popular sport but
47:27
volleyball is 10 times more popular than women's soccer is,
47:31
at least at the collegiate level.
47:32
When you're talking about they're, they're broadcasting
47:35
games on regular ESPN and ABC for women's volleyball.
47:39
Maybe not ABC, but ESPN, ESPN2, Fox, Fox Sports 1.
47:45
So you're getting a lot more eyeballs.
47:47
It's becoming more of a revenue sport when you look at it in the
47:50
grand scheme of things. Women's soccer, I don't know
47:53
who's even good at women's soccer.
47:54
I can tell you who's good at women's volleyball.
47:57
You know, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn State, without a doubt.
48:04
So yeah, it's not like women's soccer matches.
48:06
Again, not to propose the sport. Women's soccer matches are not
48:09
drawing, you know 80,000 people to attend it like it is in
48:13
Nebraska. For it's volleyball match.
48:16
So I think I think it's, well, obviously there's there's
48:22
different components to that. I I know that you can play
48:26
soccer in the winter time and it is a, you know, is a false, I
48:31
guess that's considered a fall sport.
48:34
Yeah. And you know, but it's
48:37
predominantly, you know, Southern, Southern states that
48:44
are playing. I feel like that's where the
48:46
good soccer teams are at. I feel like the Carolinas, the
48:51
feel like Carolina's good at soccer.
48:55
Maybe some Texas schools are good at soccer.
48:58
You know, I just, I think volleyball is more of a every,
49:04
every place has women's volleyball.
49:07
I feel like that's a nationwide women's sport.
49:11
Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree.
49:13
And it can be, yeah. It's it's not weather dependent
49:16
and all that stuff. There's a lot more.
49:20
Volleyball's a funny sport because it's it's volleyball
49:23
right now. I feel like is more similar to
49:25
how women's basketball was 10-15 years ago where you have kind of
49:29
that, that tier of 5 to 8 schools that are always in the
49:34
top five to 8. And then it's, you know, you've
49:37
got everybody else, but there's more and more parity growing
49:39
with volleyball. So it's, I feel like it's taking
49:41
a similar trajectory to women's basketball.
49:43
It's growing in popularity. I would certainly invest more
49:47
more energy and effort in, in volleyball, especially if that
49:52
if that percentage distribution is accurate.
49:56
This is a fun question. So Penn State this past year
50:00
they went after the number one guy in in collegiate hockey.
50:05
Penn State is not a a hockey school.
50:08
They're not known for hockey. They've not historically been
50:10
very good. The Big 10 only added hockey is
50:13
a sponsored sport about 10-10 years ago, I think.
50:16
So not historically like a huge deal.
50:19
There are some Big 10 schools that were part of other
50:22
conferences like Michigan State for instance, Michigan, but Penn
50:28
State, they went all in on NIL Rep share with Gavin McKenna to
50:33
go after the number one prospect in hockey and it seems to be
50:39
paying off for them. They're top ten team in hockey
50:41
this year as a result of this. Gavin McKenna has been a stud at
50:45
the collegiate hockey level. So the question is if we had to
50:49
strategically elevate one non revenue sport for branding or
50:53
clout to go all in on that thing, maybe go after the top
50:58
one or two prospects. And and you're just saying we're
51:01
throwing these percentages out the window.
51:04
We're taking a couple extra bucks from men's basketball
51:06
because they're starting fresh with a new coach.
51:09
We are going to invest this and we're going to go all in on
51:13
track and field or whatever. What?
51:15
What would be the sport that you are investing in for branding or
51:19
cloud purposes? For me, I mean, I would, I think
51:26
track is the answer because I feel like you can get it and you
51:29
can get an individual national championship there.
51:36
We don't have hockey or I, I mean, not hockey if we don't
51:40
have wrestling or I would go in for wrestling.
51:43
That's where I would spend, you know, just try to get the two
51:48
wrestlers in the country and win you a national championship at
51:52
140 lbs and 126 lbs, something crazy like that.
51:57
And because those guys, I know it, maybe it's rare.
52:02
Maybe I'm just not involved in the wrestling community as well
52:07
as I should be, but it feels like they're just comes along
52:11
where these guys are constantly. I'm a four time All American in
52:15
wrestling. Like these guys are dominating
52:18
from their freshman season and they stay.
52:21
They all stay. Obviously, there's really no
52:23
professional wrestling to get involved in, but these guys and
52:31
their faces of programs, like you might not know them, but I
52:35
mean in the wrestling community, they are big, big deal.
52:38
And it's in this air in Kansas area, the Midwestern general,
52:44
that is a big, big deal wrestling.
52:47
If we had wrestling, that's where I would go, but I would go
52:49
track as well. I think track, I love that we
52:52
kind of have this like we are the school we're we're high jump
53:00
university. I like, I love that shit.
53:04
I wish we could. I mean, if we if we get the
53:06
number one high jumper out of high school every year for the
53:09
next like 10 years, give me that, Give me, send me, give me
53:15
when we had what was his name? Man went to the Olympics.
53:19
He won silver at the Olympics. Eric Canard.
53:22
Canard I mean, I love that, that, I mean, track is such a
53:27
Olympic sport that if you get the best guy and then he can
53:30
make his way onto a grand stage like the Olympics, I think
53:36
that's worth it. I saw Eric Canard on campus a
53:39
few times. We overlapped as, as students
53:41
and that's that's pretty cool to, to think about.
53:43
And I feel like, you know, obviously with football and and
53:46
basketball right now, a lot of these student athletes aren't
53:49
necessarily going to, to class on campus, but track and field,
53:53
like we had a track and field athlete in, in my fraternity.
53:56
Like you see these guys on campus, these guys and gals on
53:59
campus pretty frequently. Like they are, they're a big
54:02
team. There's a lot of people on it.
54:04
Like they you run into track athletes and interact with them
54:07
probably more than you do any other, any other athletic or I
54:13
guess sponsored, sponsored sport on campus.
54:15
So it's, it's interesting. I would probably go I would
54:21
probably go baseball. I would probably go baseball
54:23
because I feel like if you. If you put.
54:27
If you put all your eggs in one basket and you get the top
54:30
pitching prospect or the top, you know, it could be an
54:34
outfielder. That's just, I mean, the dude is
54:36
the dude's just ripping jacks. He's got like a 700 slugging for
54:40
whatever. Like just doing insane stuff at
54:43
the high school level or the club level.
54:47
The Collegiate Baseball, you have to be there for two years,
54:51
right? Before, I believe so.
54:53
I believe so, yeah. The the rules are weird.
54:56
They're weird. They're different.
55:00
Because I know when you declare out of high school, yeah, yeah,
55:03
you could declare straight out of high school.
55:05
And then I think you can go, even if you declare, you can go
55:09
to college, you have to be there for, I don't know if it's two or
55:12
three years, I'm not sure. But I think baseball is a really
55:15
good pick. I mean, like you said, you can
55:17
make that if you've got the number one prospect out of high
55:21
school and he was teetering on being a first round pick or a
55:25
top like 15 pick in baseball. Those guys go to college a lot.
55:30
And yeah, if you can find a way to get him, you know, $2,000,000
55:35
for the next, like every year for the next two years, Why not?
55:40
Why not let it fly, baby? And and here's the deal.
55:44
You look at some of the programs in baseball who have won
55:47
national championships or been to the College World Series.
55:51
You've got Wichita State has a national championship in
55:54
baseball from 1989. You've got, what was it, Coastal
55:58
Carolina that won a couple of years back?
56:00
I mean, you've got smaller, yeah, you've got smaller
56:04
programs. Yeah, I mean, I remember when
56:07
when I was in high school, it was like Long Beach Poly, like.
56:11
Long Beach State, but. Yeah.
56:13
I mean those those schools. Cal State Fullerton, Cal.
56:16
State Fullerton that those schools rocked at baseball.
56:20
You see Irvine. You see, Irvine made a.
56:23
Couple different era. It's a different era, but you
56:26
know, ice I can. That's a quick way to get a
56:30
naddy. And it would be in it would be
56:33
in those in that top three of, you know, revenue sports which
56:38
that everybody keeps dogging on us on, including Missouri fans.
56:41
And the only national title they have is in baseball.
56:43
So congratulations to them for being able to celebrate
56:47
something that happened in 1950. Yeah, I I saw that.
56:53
What was the final? What was the final score?
56:55
6563 Oh my God I feel like we were up like 12 at one point and
57:02
then blew it. Well, going to have to, yeah,
57:05
going to have to find the recap on that one.
57:08
Only a couple more questions. So you have to choose one Final
57:14
Four or one College Football Playoff appearance.
57:17
And this is just an appearance in the CFP.
57:20
We're not talking about a deep run necessarily.
57:22
This is just you. You make it into the 12 team
57:25
field. Which one do you choose and why
57:28
and how? How equally or unequally do you
57:31
view those two things? Because when you look at the
57:33
revenue payout, because all that gets distributed to the
57:36
conference and each individual member equally in the Big 12,
57:40
you're really diluting that $8 million of Big 12 payout to like
57:45
half a million per school. Which when you get into like the
57:49
Final four appearance on average, you know, Big 12
57:52
schools are making relatively deep runs pretty much every
57:55
year. But based on the unit's, it all
57:57
kind of ends up equaling out. So the revenue wise, it doesn't
58:00
make a huge difference. It might be a couple $100
58:03
hundred, $1000 difference, but it's not a drastic difference in
58:06
the grand scheme of things. OK, Can I, can I get some like
58:11
oddly specific things just for a Kansas State perspective?
58:16
Is this are are we at home for that Kansas State playoff,
58:20
College Football Playoff? Why not?
58:23
I think that I think that makes a huge difference.
58:27
I think a Final Four is like, OK, Final 4 is probably the
58:34
leader in the clubhouse, but I think if you get a home game and
58:37
you're not guaranteeing me that we lose.
58:40
And it's not just for sure, one game in the College Football
58:43
Playoff and I get a home game at College Football Playoff and a
58:47
chance to win and go on to the next rounds.
58:51
I'm going to take probably football.
58:55
Being a College Football Playoff winner is a really big deal.
59:00
Now you're down to the final eight.
59:02
I think that is that's crazy. I think that it that's really,
59:06
that's really good for the program.
59:08
That's really good for the university.
59:10
I know about the I don't know anything about the revenue like
59:13
you were talking about how who gets what, how much is
59:16
distributed. But I think just from a
59:18
branding, winning the College Football Playoff game at home is
59:23
monstrous. That would be that would be
59:25
awesome. A final 4, though.
59:28
It's really, really, really cool.
59:31
It's really cool. I think it needs to be somewhere
59:33
other than Indianapolis. Yuck.
59:36
I don't yeah. I hate when it's in Indy.
59:39
That's. What if the Final Four is in the
59:41
brand new Arrowhead Stadium in the Legends in Kansas City?
59:45
That's pretty. Sweet.
59:48
Is that big enough though? Is that big?
59:50
Enough. It will.
59:50
Yeah. Yeah, it will be, of course.
59:54
That's an indoor facility. It's going to have a Dome.
59:59
The Chief Stadium is going to have a Dome.
1:00:01
It's going to have a Dome. Where have you been?
1:00:04
I have no idea 300 the. 300 page long K state online the red.
1:00:10
On I have not looked at that one.
1:00:13
So OK, man, that would be that would be monstrous.
1:00:18
That would be awesome. So I'm, I'm really waffling
1:00:22
here, but I'm going to go, I'm going to go College Football
1:00:27
Playoff, OK, with a chance to win at a, with a, with a home
1:00:31
game. Yeah, give me that.
1:00:33
Give me that. Yeah, the.
1:00:36
Problem with that is I hope you've won four games in the
1:00:40
NCAA tournament, which is so fun.
1:00:42
Dude, that is so, so fun. Just from those Elite Eight
1:00:47
runs. I mean, you, those are so
1:00:50
magical. It is literally called March
1:00:52
Mad. The magic of the the tournament
1:00:55
is real. That is, it's it's awesome.
1:00:58
It is. I'm going to go call football
1:01:00
player. OK, yeah, I, I struggle with
1:01:02
this one. I, I have a hard time making
1:01:04
this decision because I, I feel like the Final Four has a lot
1:01:09
more nostalgia because it's, it's been around my entire life.
1:01:12
I've watched Final Fours as long as I can remember watching
1:01:16
basketball, CFP, you know, it's this new shiny objects.
1:01:20
So that's kind of fun. That's kind of cool.
1:01:22
But it doesn't have as much of that allure as the Final Four
1:01:26
does for me. So I feel like my my heart is
1:01:29
telling me the Final Four, but my brain is telling me the CFP,
1:01:33
if that makes any sense. Yeah, I feel like the CFP would
1:01:37
do more for K State in general, as a community, as a brand, as a
1:01:42
program, from a football perspective.
1:01:44
But. But think of the banner that's
1:01:47
in Bramlich now. That's that's true.
1:01:50
You don't get no banners for College Football Playoff
1:01:52
appearances. No, and you don't get you don't
1:01:55
get logos, you don't get logos for Elite Eights, right, That's
1:02:01
true. So so the, the CFP though, I
1:02:04
feel like it's funny because we would have made so many of these
1:02:09
CFPS in the past had they had a 12 team playoff.
1:02:12
So it is kind of funny. I mean, we would have we would
1:02:15
have had multiple. I mean 2014 you would have
1:02:17
appeared. 2012 you would have appeared, you know. 2011 you you
1:02:22
would have had a shot to appear because we made the Cotton Bowl
1:02:25
that year. 20119822 So there's a few years O3 you would have had
1:02:34
an opportunity to make the CFPA number of times.
1:02:38
So it is kind of funny to think about it in retrospect.
1:02:40
So you know, do you hold some of those New Year's 6 bowls from
1:02:44
the past at 2000 the Cotton Bowl against Tennessee?
1:02:48
Do you, do you hold some of those in a similar regard as you
1:02:51
do to the Final four if you're putting those in a similar?
1:02:55
I don't know. I don't know if I think, I don't
1:02:57
know now that you say it like that.
1:03:00
I don't think now if you had it, because now you're having to
1:03:03
have those teams play more games.
1:03:06
And I think the the allure of those those teams, well, some of
1:03:12
them is that they went out on top like they were they were
1:03:15
really, really good teams and they they made that that game
1:03:18
and that was their final game. And then they didn't have
1:03:20
another game where they were also a Sugar Bowl team and all
1:03:25
that stuff. I think there's the nostalgia of
1:03:28
like back in the day when you had one game and that was it.
1:03:31
That was your final game. I think there was something to
1:03:34
that. The Final Four, man, that is.
1:03:37
I don't know. I think I'm going to go College
1:03:39
Football Playoff, like you said, with my brain.
1:03:41
I'm going College Football Playoff.
1:03:43
In my heart. It does scream like, man, you
1:03:46
want to be a Final Four team in basketball.
1:03:48
You're playing really good basketball and you've probably
1:03:52
had to beat some really good teams, maybe potentially.
1:03:55
Yeah. Oh, for sure.
1:03:58
So I'm going to I'm going to skip.
1:04:01
I'm going to skip. Come with the the last two
1:04:03
questions. These are a well, I don't know,
1:04:06
they're kind of fun. We're already over.
1:04:07
I'm not I'm not planning on going anywhere.
1:04:10
Coaching decision. So you're AD for a day.
1:04:12
You have to fire one head coach not named Matthew Driscoll.
1:04:16
You have to there's no option not to.
1:04:18
Who are you going to fire and why?
1:04:21
This could be across any any sport.
1:04:23
And I'm I could tell you my answer if you're.
1:04:25
Not hold on. So it's not just a basketball
1:04:28
thing any. Coach, but you have to.
1:04:32
You have to fire 1 coach. It could be an assistant.
1:04:36
I'm no one head coach one. OK.
1:04:43
I mean, women's volleyball guy Mole, was it mole?
1:04:52
Mansfield, Jason Mansfield. Yeah, I like.
1:04:55
Get him out of here. I'm not firing Pete Hughes.
1:04:57
I'm not doing it. I'm not.
1:04:59
Either I OK. Jordan Smith has been the
1:05:02
women's tennis coach since 2018. The man is 65 and 87 overall and
1:05:11
he's 15 and 47 in Big 12 play. How is he?
1:05:16
How is he still the coach is my first question.
1:05:19
And secondly, I just, I've never again, I've never really paid
1:05:24
attention to women's tennis again.
1:05:25
It's not a knock on the athletes who are probably doing their
1:05:28
best to represent the university, but I was a coach
1:05:32
that is that bad in Big 12 place, still coaching.
1:05:36
I don't know that's. Eight seasons in.
1:05:39
Is he an old man? No, he's like a relatively
1:05:43
young, like kind of attractive looking man like I.
1:05:49
Don't know. That's so funny.
1:05:50
I don't know it. Looks like he's 40.
1:05:51
Maybe at the at the at the. Wow.
1:05:53
I mean, I didn't know that our tennis program was in shambles
1:05:56
like this. I just yeah, get him out of
1:06:00
here, dude. Get him the hell out of here.
1:06:03
What's his name? Jordan Smith, which is a very
1:06:08
generic name. Wait, I have two last names
1:06:12
buddy. OK.
1:06:15
My last question, you get to add 1 men's and one women's sport,
1:06:19
which we don't have. I think I already know your
1:06:21
answer on this. Yeah, I'm going.
1:06:22
I'm going wrestling, going wrestling.
1:06:26
I love a good wrestling and women's sports.
1:06:32
Give me, give me field hockey. Oh.
1:06:36
OK, I'm almost tempted to go lacrosse in men's, but I'm going
1:06:42
to go wrestling. I think a Gray, a Gray singlet,
1:06:48
maybe even a, you know, a lavender singlet.
1:06:51
Absolute nasty work. Give me that.
1:06:56
You get some, you know, 200 and £45 giant Kansas bread freak in
1:07:04
the heavyweight division painting somebody in the
1:07:06
lavender singlet. Can't get much better than that.
1:07:10
And then women's field hockey. I love their little masks that
1:07:12
they wear. Real fun sport to watch.
1:07:18
Real athletic freaks there too. They get going, they get to
1:07:21
moving and it's a violent, I thought it was a lot less
1:07:24
violent than it is, but they they're physical.
1:07:27
So yeah, give me, give me women's field hockey.
1:07:29
So I, you all know my answer to this is going to be men's, It's
1:07:33
going to be men's and women's ice hockey.
1:07:35
Shout out USA double gold golden goals in both games.
1:07:41
Love the Winter Olympics, love, love hockey.
1:07:44
And my reason for this is I feel like you have to have both men's
1:07:47
and women's hockey in order to justify building a facility for
1:07:50
that. If it's going to be just men's.
1:07:54
I, I feel like they, they wouldn't necessarily want to, to
1:07:58
build a facility for it. But with the excitement around
1:08:02
hockey, I feel like you can capitalize on some of the
1:08:05
momentum that, that the NHL has, has been able to capitalize on
1:08:08
with the Olympics in the Four Nations and, and all that stuff.
1:08:11
And when you look at strategically, when you look at
1:08:14
Division One men's and women's ice hockey, they're really only
1:08:17
about 63 or 64 teams across all of Division One.
1:08:22
So kind of similar to what you're what you're talking about
1:08:24
with wrestling. There's a little bit of a power
1:08:27
vacuum. There's not really a program in
1:08:29
the state of Kansas, in the state of Oklahoma.
1:08:32
Nebraska has the University of of Nebraska Omaha has a program
1:08:36
there in the NCHC, but they're not traditional conferences
1:08:40
necessarily. The Big 10's really the only
1:08:41
one. But you got like hockey E you've
1:08:44
got the NCHTDU is a powerhouse they.
1:08:48
Want to think more? National titles than than any
1:08:51
other program. And Michigan, I think is right
1:08:54
on their heels. Michigan's right behind them or
1:08:56
Minnesota Duluth. But it's not traditional
1:08:58
powerhouses. It's all these kind of random.
1:09:01
Geographically, it makes sense that they have hockey types of
1:09:04
teams. And then you get Arizona State
1:09:06
in the mix. Arizona State has been elevated.
1:09:09
They're now in the NCHC, so they're playing in the same
1:09:11
conference as the University of Denver, University of North
1:09:15
Dakota, Western Michigan, just powerhouse programs that have
1:09:19
won most of the recent national titles in hockey.
1:09:22
So it's possible. And the path to get there is the
1:09:26
same path that Oklahoma State's starting to take where they've
1:09:29
got a team that's in this, you know, Division 2 of collegiate
1:09:32
club hockey. They, they, you know, Arizona
1:09:36
State took the same path. And I think 3 or 4 years ago,
1:09:39
they elevated themselves up to the NCHC level.
1:09:42
But it's just, it's, I feel like there's a lot of opportunity for
1:09:45
you to build up a program, build up a fan base with the way K
1:09:48
State fans are embracing a lot of these different types of
1:09:53
sports. When, when they're really good,
1:09:55
you don't even have to be good at hockey.
1:09:56
It's just fun to watch. It's fun to participate in, it's
1:09:58
fun to watch. I would be all in on men's and
1:10:02
women's ice hockey and I feel like it could be, it could be a
1:10:05
really good opportunity for us to do something other than what
1:10:08
they're doing with Ahern, to go in and and renovate that, turn
1:10:12
that into an ice hockey arena. Let's do it.
1:10:14
Why not, hey? I'm all with you.
1:10:17
I mean, you sold me. I mean, it's better than me just
1:10:19
talking about guys and lavender singlets.
1:10:22
So yeah, give me, give me ice hockey.
1:10:24
I'll watch. I'll be all over that.
1:10:30
And my, my last question, you get to be AD for a day, Anthony
1:10:34
Davis, are you shaving the unibrow or keeping it?
1:10:40
I think he's so secure with his unibrow.
1:10:42
I mean, it's it's, it's a brand moniker for him.
1:10:45
I think he has to keep it. I mean, I'm not shaving it.
1:10:49
I mean, I'm worried about like keeping my feet healthy, my
1:10:53
ankles secure. I'm worried about that.
1:10:56
I'm not really worried about facial hair at that point.
1:10:58
So, yeah, you're going to lose out on millions and millions of
1:11:02
dollars if you don't take care of your ankles, brother.
1:11:04
Come on. I'm shaving, it looks awful.
1:11:09
And he's a wizard now. I mean, his career might be
1:11:14
over. Might as well shave.
1:11:16
If longer can shave his unibrow AD can shave his.
1:11:20
I'm going to end it with that quick shout out also to AJ's
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head and shoulders bottle on Twitter.
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